The I.T. Life

I really do, its true. I like outlook, it works the way my brain does. I find Notes primitive, disorganized, and far to complicated. Also, Active Sync doesn’t work with it. So, here is my workaround, keep in mind this only works for email, and it isn’t pretty. I have at work 2 emails, lets say for the sake of privacy jeff@a.com and jeff@b.com. I setup 2 email address to match a@jeffreyhann.com and b@jeffreyhann.com, just to keep everything separate the way notes keeps it. Now, I tell notes that every time a email comes to jeff@a.com send it to a@jeffreyhann.com, and same with jeff@b.com. I tell outlook that for every message in a@jeffreyhann.com, reply with jeff@a.com, and same with b@jeffreyhann.com. Now, I have them both checking email ever minute, and check everything from outlook. The problem with this is that the email never gets deleted on notes, so I will have to manually delete/organize message there. I’m hoping I can do this once a month, depending on email traffic. The main benefit of this is that my new phone (that I will get tonight) HTC Touch, supports push email via active sync + outlook. So I will now have instant and 24/7 access to my work email. I can set this up for any of my email address, I just have to set it up in outlook.

I mentioned earlier, this only works for my email, and for the most part, my calender is filled with items that do not need to be shared, I will have to use notes calender when I need something public unfortunately.

Ok, so, im a lazy and inventive person. Thus im a programmer (not a web designer, as my job may imply). So, instead of spending 15min reading my morning 8 or so web comics, i wrote a program that does it for me. Now, the version that I am uploading is not the most recent, however it is probably one of the best. It doesnt display the oversized comics of my choice, like ctrl-alt-del, and the outer circle, howver, it does display my 3 cell comics, and my 1 cell comics. I enjoy the program. I may finish the next version and get it to accept oversized comics, and make it work on sundays, however, for now, nobody needs to use my program on sunday, and, nobody needs to see oversized comics. Heres the link guys, check it out, tell me what ya think, and most of all, enjoy free software, ill be posting the code later, all my stuff is open source. However, it is under the beer license, meaning if you like it, and you ever meet me, you are obligated to buy me a beer, if you want. Its a nice open ended license, and it gets me free beer, asuming you like my program, meet me, and want to buy me beer. Yah, im gonna be getting lots of beer. Hey, maby I should put a section on www.jeffreyhann.com dedicated to my software, or just setup a section on The I.T. Life for my software. What do you guys think?

Its a sad day. Trully a sad day. As many of you may not know, symantic purchased sygate, the makers of sygate personal firewall. This was one of the best personal firewalls avaible, and it was free. Now, obviously symantic felt that it was a very present theat so they purchased it, than, discontinued it. Now, theres no way that you can see this as anything other than removing the competition. Good job symantic, now ill never give you my money.

Wired News has a great article on the worst software bugs. Also, theres some great interactive guides that explain common bugs like buffer overflows. Seriously, check this out!
Wired news story

Ok, now im the type of user that wants a computer to work, and I dont want to dick around with settings and files and stuff to get it to work. This is why I love and hate linux. Depending on the distro you will have to do everything yourself (ie slackware) or have it all done for you (ie madriva). Im a middle of the road kind of guy, and I think thats where all new users to linux should be. You should have everything set up, but it should be quick and easy to learn how to set it up yourself.
This why I use Its a debian based distro, so its rock solid. Its already set up and everything you need for basic applications is installed. And when you want to start setting stuff up yourself, than check out the Ubuntu Guide
I really like this and its pretty easy to set up.
Have fun.